I think it’s more poor choice of words than malice. She’s a neo-burlesque artist, she doesn’t have a press secretary.

It seems unlikely to me that anyone normal and sane would date/marry Marilyn Manson.

Krist Novoselic seems pretty stable and pretty decent.

Stonkfuckers

(Reddit drives up Starfuckers, Inc stock by 500%)

Glad I shorted the stock of Starfuckers Inc.

I struggled with this part:
“No hard feelings, as Birbiglia gave Conan a sleeve of hastily personalized Mike Birbiglia golf balls in place of the official NBC-made Conan golf swag that Schlansky disdainfully denied the young Mike.”

No offense, but this is some clunky writing. It doesn’t flow.

It seems disrespectful to Alex to have a host who peddles lies and pseudo-science. 

Slightly nervous they want to go with Bialik and Oz is there to make her anti-vaxxing seem less abnormal.

Shit I thought we were rid of him decades ago. It took a scroller ad at the bottom of a page and insomniac tapping to bring me here.

Well, maybe that New Radicals guy was onto something after all. 

This is an aspect of cancellation that bothers me — it’s not the simple matter of cancelling artists in the present (which we should obviously do), but rather the airbrushing-Trotsky-out-of-state-photos thing we do when a beloved artist is revealed to be an abuser or creep or rapist or whatever.

We booed him off stage in Chicago at ozzfest 97. there was a near riot when he tried to take the stage at in ohio on that tour. A lot of us have always hated his crap

I mean Lizzo exists so he’s automatically not the worst ever.  

Well his stage and public persona IS an act, however that doesn’t mean he is not also a sadistic asshole behind the scenes.

I suspect The Wonder Years reunion isn’t happening now.

Sons of Anarchy, fuck, even Dexter has defenders. The worst thing some people say about Dexter is that the finale was bad, as if the fucking entire season and the 3 previous ones weren’t trash.

While this does not relate directly to the article, I want to take this opportunity to urge anyone with more than a passing interest in Lynch to seek out and find *David Lynch: An Art Life*, an excellent documentary that focuses on Lynch’s creative process and ideas, with a touch of personal history thrown in. It’s…

As a sidenote, as much as I loved the episode, there was a narrative decision that bothered me during it and really stuck out to me while reading the recap here. The 1972 Democratic Primary was extremely contentious and there was a really strong ‘Anyone but McGowern’ southern Democrat movement that actively that tried…